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It was the night of the dreaded talent show. Great, I thought to myself. I didn't want to go to this thing, but Charlie told me that if I refused to do this then I might have to go back to Renee's place in Jacksonville. I still hadn't decided if I actually wanted to or not, but I knew that I did want to have a choice, so I agreed.
Three weeks ago I had just gotten out of my so called "zombie mode" as Charlie had so kindly put it. I spent every day of those three weeks with Jacob Black. Jake was my best friend, he has always been there for me, not like him. He left me. I cringed, it was still hard to think about him.
I snapped my head up as Mr. Banner walked up onto the stage, pretending to be interested. I don't want to do this, I was repeating inside my head over and over again, straight through Jessica's dance performance.
Everyone started to applaud as she gave her bow and skipped off the stage. I crossed my fingers in hope that I wouldn't be next.
"The next person up will be singing a song called Gravity! BELLA SWAN!
Great. I was never one to be that lucky.
I stood up and straightened my floral skirt. Angela and I went shopping for outfits to wear at the show and I was somehow persuaded to wear a skirt. Thankfully, I found one that was a long, black and blue, floral skirt. I added a long-sleeve, blue shirt. Over it, I put on a black vest with a blue flower in its pocket. (AN: check out the link on my profile.)
I slowly walked up the stairs and onto the stage. I looked out at the audience when my eyes caught an all too familiar pair of golden orbs. Edward, I almost fainted right there from shock. Then I remembered what he had said to me. If he thinks I'm going to fall into his arms he has another thing coming.
I gave the cue to start and took a deep breath in. The music started to play and I took the microphone and stared into Edward's eyes.
Let's do this. And with that thought I began to sing.
Something always brings me back to you.
It never takes too long.
No matter what I say or do I'll still feel you here 'til the moment I'm gone.
He'll always have a place in my heart, I will always love him, but it isn't enough anymore.
You hold me without touch.
You keep me without chains.
I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.
'We're leaving,' he said.
'We?"
'My family and I," he told me.
Set me free, leave me be. I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity.
Here I am and I stand so tall, just the way I'm supposed to be.
But you're on to me and all over me.
I looked at him with tear-filled eyes as I sang the next lines, the lines that I think about every day since the day he left me.
You loved me 'cause I'm fragile.
When I thought that I was strong.
But you touch me for a little while and all my fragile strength is gone.
'I can't lose control with you'
'And so the lion fell in love with the lamb'
'What a stupid lamb'
Set me free, leave me be. I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity.
Here I am and I stand so tall, just the way I'm supposed to be.
But you're on to me and all over me.
He's staring at me, his mouth hanging open. If I weren't about to cry my eyes out and forget the ending of the song, I would have felt proud that I had actually managed to shock the famous Edward Cullen.
I live here on my knees as I try to make you see that you're everything I think I need here on
The ground.
But you're neither friend nor foe though I can't seem to let you go.
The one thing that I still know is that you're keeping me down
You're keeping me down
He kept shaking his head back and forth and whispering something under his breath. His lips seemed to be forming one word: No.
He didn't believe me.
…Something always brings me back to you.
It never takes too long.
He told me it would be as if he had never existed.
He was wrong.
But I'm going to try to get off of my knees and live my life, and hope that the path I take to forget about him won't bring me back to where I started. I realized that I needed a way to make him understand, and if he wasn't going to listen to my song, I was going to have to show him some other way.
I'll do whatever I can to make him understand.
The next day I booked a plane ticket to Jacksonville.
A/N: So, please tell me what you thought of it. I will add more chapters soon!